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–adjective 

1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: 



facile [fingers] 

a facile [mind].  



2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: 



a facile [victory] 

a facile [method].  



3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.  



4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: 



a facile [temperament] 

facile [people].  



—Synonyms 

1. smooth, flowing, fluent; glib. 

2. superficial. 

3. bland, suave; urbane. 





   

But where Wong facilely filtered the alien terrain of Soho and Reno through his own distinctive lens, Hou appears to have accepted his distance from the material—and worked with it. Flight of the Red Balloon is explicitly an outsider's movie, full of odd perspectives and founded on dislocation.





　

Images like that have no place in the modern cinema, which is committed to facile psychology and realistic behavior. In many ways, Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal'' (1957) has more in common with the silent film than with the modern films that followed it--including his own. 



Perhaps that is why it is out of fashion at the moment. Long considered one of the masterpieces of cinema, it is now a little embarrassing to some viewers, with its stark imagery and its uncompromising subject, which is [no] less than the absence of God.





scour

ransack rummage

fumble 

bumble bungle botch flub

grope

I had to grope [around] in [the darkness] before I found the light switch.  

from the [earnest] strivings of the musical score to the [beery] gropings of the Germans

ferret

to ferret [rabbits] from their burrows. 

to ferret [out] enemies. 

to ferret [out] the [facts].  

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